Michele Colli

Michele Colli (1738-22 December 1808), born Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi, was a general of the Kingdom of Piedmont who took part in the Italian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Biography
In 1756 Colli joined the army of the Holy Roman Empire and fought in the Battle of Prague in 1757 and was wounded at the Battle of Torgau in 1760. In 1789 he fought in the Austro-Turkish Wars at Belgrade and was wounded again, and he was both cool under fire and intelligent.

In the 1790s he fought in the French Revolutionary Wars in the Italian Campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte. In Late April 1796 he was defeated at Coni and Cuneo fell to the French army, and after 1797 he served the Kingdom of Naples. He died in 1808.